I saw nothing about usage rates in the linked articles. Do you have a source which says that the Dutch use more marijuana than the US?
The articles you linked also said nothing about a general prohibition returning. Wishful thinking by some, IMO.
Amsterdam had a murder rate of about 3.6/100,000 in 2007.¹ San Jose, one of the safest cities in the US with a population over 500,000, had a murder rate of 3.5 in 2007². Overall, the murder rate in the US is nearly 4X the Dutch rate.³
¹http://www.expatica.com/nl/articles/news/Record-low-murder-rate-once-again.html
²http://city-data.com
³http:/nationmaster.com
Of course not. There can be no reasonable rates of US pot usage~ any such statistics would be nothing more than a guess anyway, as the lion's share of pot users are underground, and have never been busted.
Amsterdam had a murder rate of about 3.6/100,000 in 2007.¹ San Jose, one of the safest cities in the US with a population over 500,000, had a murder rate of 3.5 in 2007². Overall, the murder rate in the US is nearly 4X the Dutch rate.³
So what? Is it your position that legalized pot and magic mushrooms would suddenly cause the drug trafficking gangbangers and crack driven criminals (the large portion of those US murders, I would bet) to quit their territories and find Jesus? Is it your assertion that there is some link between murder and illegal marijuana?